Loopy Pro 1.1 is out.
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Has anyone seen any great showcases of using Loopy to make techno type music? I’ve always heard great things about it but found it quite uninspiring when I tried it, but feel like maybe I’m missing the point of it
huge move right here
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This looks great. I never actually believed Apple would bring Logic Pro to the iPad but from the screenshots alone it looks like they’ve done a great job of bringing a fully featured product to it. This might be enough to make me upgrade my 11" iPad Pro to a 12.9" one and fully commit to DAW based music making.
Release date is 23rd May and it’s going to cost $4.99/month $49/year.
A reminder that the developer of Samplr now works for Apple.
Logic Pro on iPad comes with a massive collection of realistic-sounding instruments and powerful synths including Sample Alchemy — a new sample manipulation instrument that can transform any audio sample with the tap of a finger.
Look at this screenshot. Something familiar, eh? Look at the modes in the middle (Classic/Loop/Scrub/Bow/Arp).
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Software as a service, or rather as a subscription, that’s a bummer.
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More details from Apple here:
Under Pro Workflow heading it confirms it’s an AUV3 host. Not wild about the subscription model, either, though I’ll definitely at least do the trial.
Will another iPad be able to act as a Logic Remote, hmmmm.
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It looks great, but it should be free for desktop Logic Pro licence holders.
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If it can run all AUV3 apps, then this will also be a nice bonus, as many of my AUV3’s don’t work on Mac Silicon desktop.
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Why?
Looks to be well worth the $50 a year (especially if they keep adding/updating which can happen more often with subscription based software, the app store doesn’t seem top do ‘upgrades’ very well) - I spend a lot more than that on apps I don’t end up using much every year!
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This is my personal opinion, and I’m aware of the debates around software development costs over the lifecycle of a product.
Apple are jumping on the bandwagon of the iOS software subscription approach, and I personally don’t like it.
Apple are cash rich enough and should just swallow the development costs - it would be a great added value gesture.
The alternative would be to just have a one time only payment, like Logic for desktop.
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Fair enough. But I disagree that a company being successful should preclude them from recouping their costs and making profits.
The inverse would be less successful and cash poor companies charging 2-3x or more for what a given product is worth.
Both seems like bad business models in my personal opinion.
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Thanks for sharing your views.
I agree that many developers wouldn’t survive and evolve without the subscription approach, but Apple could be above this given their ‘giant’ status.
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Totally agree with that. I will not use it. Perfectly happy with Cubasis already
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It’s hard to overestimate what a huge deal this is.
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it already runs on apple silicon. development was basically done already.
But why do they need to add value? Logic Pro on Mac is easily the best value DAW out there, compare it to the shenanigans that Bitwig tried to pull recently and Ableton’s pricing models…I don’t think Apple have ever raised the price for paying customers and keep adding significant new features. And you’re getting a DAW that is made specific for your hardware. Not sure why they need to make gestures…?
The interface had to be redesigned. It’s not free to port Mac apps to the iPad.
But anyway, I respect the Pianoteq approach much more. Buy once, use everywhere.
I’d like to try it out (I have a Logic license, though I sold my Mac recently), but given how I found its bigger brother full of small annoyances and missing features, and overall inferior to Reaper (for my use case at least, I work with hardware, and Logic couldn’t even be slaved to midi clock), I don’t think I’d risk paying for something that is unlikely to give me anything useful I don’t already have with Cubasis and a selection of plugins.